Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[achookwoman]

Love eggplant here.  Make a lovely smokey dip ( posted) and always use them in veggie lasagna. ( grilled or baked in slices first)
Cookie, you are so lucky to be able to grow them.
Went veggie shopping and couldn’t get over the price of everything. Will be eating out of the garden as much as possible. Have been given tomatoes, apples,  a pumpkin, potatoes, and 2 bottles of tomato sauce.
We have Kale, silver beet, green toms, Rhubarb , lettuce, Zuchinni, and lots of herbs, lemons and limes.

[cookie1]

Thanks Chookie.  We have very little room for growing things, but DD wanted to try these. Thanks for the ideas. Most of our block is house, with most of the outside paving with old cars on or car parts. We planned little garden as we hoped to spend most of our time travelling. This has been curtailed for the moment, due to MIL. 

[K Atie]

Autumn is so dry this year . Collected eggs , picked a few tear drop tomatoes apples and parsley. They autumn leaves are on the ground the sun is still warming those lone tomatoes . My DH said would you plant vegetables at the moment and not water them , no . So his paddocks may not flower with crop if the rain does not come , rain Dance will be needed very soon for all .

[Cuilidh]

Keep smiling, katie - some rain is on its way ... according to the BOM!

[judydawn]

Here too Marina but I’ll believe it when I see it. 

[cookie1]

Keep smiling, katie - some rain is on its way ... according to the BOM!

I'm sort of addicted to BOM. I'm always checking it.

[achookwoman]

The veggies are loving the rain.  Over an inch and a half in 2 days. Even the dam has increased.

[Cuilidh]

That's good news, Chookie.

How is your rainfall K Atie?

[cookie1]

gee that's' good Chookie. I still think of the rainfall in inches. It is going to be 27 here today but the nights are cold. I think rain is coming for the weekend.

[K Atie]

We got 12mls only , some got over 60 mls nearby ! At least it’s a start .

[achookwoman]

K Atie, we often miss out.

[Cuilidh]

In Guildford, just out of Castlemaine, we are also in a rain shadow ... but we did manage 35 ml last week, fingers crossed for more.

[Cuilidh]

As an experiment, I have recently started trenching my compost directly into our vege garden instead of into the compost heap ... much to my surprise I now have several self seeding, thriving butternut plants growing in the garden .. one of them is even flowering.  Sadly, I don't think they will come to anything as the winter frosts will kill them off, but they are fun while they last  I think I might just cover them with bubble wrap to see if that protects them.

[cookie1]

That sounds like fun Marina. We used to do it at our other house, but we got a bug in the ground from our potato peelings and had to sterilise it.

[judydawn]

So are you saying not to bury your potato peelings cookie?